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A clinical trial of Crenezumab, made by Genentech, will focus largely on people in a large Colombian family who are genetically destined to suffer from the disease but who do not yet have any symptoms.

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In Sperm Banks, a Roll of the Genetic Dice

In households across the country, children conceived with donated sperm are struggling with serious genetic conditions inherited from men they have never met.

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Green Blog: On Our Radar: Imagining Many More Gray Whales

A study of DNA in whale bones seems to indicate that far more whales once existed than previously thought.

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May 16 08:00Centromere remodeling in Hoolock leuconedys (Hylobatidae) by a new transposable element unique to the gibbons. - Lucia Carbone et al. (GBE)
May 16 08:00Rooting Gene Trees Without Outgroups: Ep Rooting - Janet S. Sinsheimer, Roderick J. A. Little, James A. Lake (GBE)
May 16 08:00Ultra-deep Sequencing Analysis of Population Dynamics of Virus Escape Mutants in RNAi-mediated Resistant Plants - Fernando Martínez et al. (MBE)
May 16 08:00Unidirectional evolutionary transitions in fungal mating systems and the role of transposable elements - Anastasia Gioti, Alexandra A. Mushegian, Rebecka Strandberg, Jason E. Stajich, Hanna Johannesson (MBE)
May 16 08:00Loss of two introns from the Magnolia tripetala mitochondrial cox2 gene implicates horizontal gene transfer and gene conversion as a novel mechanism of intron loss - Nancy J. Hepburn, Derek W. Schmidt, Jeffrey P. Mower (MBE)
May 16 08:00A model for the evolution of the mammalian T cell receptor α/δ and μ loci based on evidence from the duckbill platypus - Zuly E. Parra, Mette Lillie, Robert D. Miller (MBE)
May 16 08:00Recent retrotransposon insertions are methylated and phylogenetically clustered in japonica rice (Oryza sativa spp. japonica) - Bridgett M. vonHoldt, Shohei Takuno, Brandon S. Gaut (MBE)
May 14 16:00Comparative genomics of rhizobia nodulating soybean suggests extensive recruitment of lineage-specific genes in adaptations - Chang Fu Tian et al. (PNAS)
May 14 16:00Regulatory changes contribute to the adaptive enhancement of thermogenic capacity in high-altitude deer mice - Zachary A. Cheviron, Gwendolyn C. Bachman, Alex D. Connaty, Grant B. McClelland, Jay F. Storz (PNAS)
May 14 08:00Divergent Evolutionary Pattern of Starch Biosynthetic Pathway Genes in Grasses and Dicots - Chun Li, Qi-Gang Li, Jim M. Dunwell, Yuan-Ming Zhang (MBE)
May 14 08:00Habitat variability correlates with duplicate content of Drosophila genomes - Takashi Makino, Masakado Kawata (MBE)

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